Example sentences of "before and after " in BNC.

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1 Most people will welcome advice and guidance before and after retirement .
2 Forty people are to appear in court in Blackpool today after Birmingham City supporters went on the rampage before and after their team 's Third Division match with Blackpool , wrecking a pub , smashing dozens of windows and bombarding police with bottles and glasses .
3 Surveys of parking habits by the deparment 's Transport and Road Research Laboratory carried out before and after wheelclamping was extended to the areas of St John 's Wood and Pimlico in London in spring 1987 , show that parking on yellow lines declined by 31 and 17 per cent respectively .
4 The careers of Leopold Maxse and W. C. Bridgeman exemplify the changing fortunes and outlook of the Conservative Party before and after 1914 .
5 By the time I was six I was giving myself injections , twice a day , before and after school .
6 The shoot-to-kill policy was briefly suspended before and after Mr Honecker 's visit to the Federal Republic two years ago and again this year .
7 To his credit , Sir Thomas Beecham never put up with it ; nor did Karl Böhm , nor the Glyndebourne pioneers before and after the second world war .
8 Photographs are often shown of the slimmer before and after the diet , and indeed , the marvellous effects are there for us all to see .
9 This may be called the ‘ monumental or Renaissance ’ , a style which made an enormous impact on ‘ townscapes ’ throughout Europe , especially in the years before and after the Great War .
10 He kept telling his gentle mother , both before and after the death ( in 1911 ) of his more authoritarian and rabbinical father ( the first Lord Swaythling ) , that he could not marry a Jewess because he found them so unattractive .
11 The purpose of the test is to provide an objective basis for assessing the nature and extent of participants ' alcohol knowledge before and after doing the course .
12 To measure the extent to which the AEC was able to successfully anticipate and overcome this potential problem a drink profile questionnaire ( DPQ ) was devised and administered before and after the course .
13 Maternity leave is a statutory 40 weeks maximum with fixed periods before and after the birth ( 11 weeks before and 29 weeks after ) .
14 Before and After Cromwell
15 Before and After the Great War
16 Proportional representation will produce greater stability in government , ending the economic disruption caused by sudden sharp swings in government policies before and after elections .
17 While I have not pretended that pre-Chernobyl data are extensive , there is compelling evidence about soil and grass contamination in the Cumbrian uplands before and after Chernobyl , based on research and monitoring by the Atomic Energy Authority , the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology , and BNFL .
18 Before and after his marriage , Nicholson could date happily without fear of a single solitary piece of salacious writing in any newspaper or magazine — ‘ complete anonymity in social exchange ’ was the way he described his situation — or , as a further succinct explanation , ‘ I was able to go around picking up stray pussy . ’
19 It is , therefore , vital that you stretch before and after every run and also on the days when you do n't run .
20 But standards of teaching were good ; just how good is shown by the large number of South African dancers who won leading positions in British companies before and after the 1939 war .
21 For the most part , the growth of this dome was accompanied by intermittent Vulcanian activity , responsible for the loud explosions heard in St Pierre and for the ash that was showered down on the town before and after the fateful 8 May .
22 Mailed and heavily armed knights were an upper military class , with associated servants who undertook the many tasks needed to maintain both knight , horse and arms , before and after a conflict .
23 Agricultural statistics take no account of such changes because an old hay meadow may be recorded as permanent grassland both before and after a sudden change in management practice ( e.g. a one-off large inorganic fertiliser dose ) or even after one cultivation provided its agricultural use does not change .
24 Jenny took the society through all the processes before and after firing at high temperatures fine porcelain clay .
25 Consider some simple examples from the University Farm at Bristol of how we fed our cows before and after the imposition of quotas .
26 It would be true to say that Cleveleys has grown with the tramway , large areas being developed before and after the Second World War .
27 Henry Winstanley undoubtedly , like many others before and after him , combined eccentricity with genius .
28 Newcomers to night fishing are always surprised to find how cold it is at night , especially those few hours before and after dawn .
29 Anticoagulated blood or platelet-rich plasma was passed through the column at a fixed flow rate and platelet counts were performed before and after exposure to these foreign surfaces — the difference being the number of platelets adhering .
30 Platelet aggregation in response to adrenaline showed striking changes when studied before and after stabilisation of poorly controlled diabetics ( Peterson et al , 1977 ) in that the lag phase following the addition of adrenaline was prolonged from a mean of 19 to 65 seconds following stabilisation .
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